Motel Parking Lot

On our recent drive to Philadelphia we had decided to split up the trip so that we would not be driving into the city on a Friday late afternoon rush hour. It's not been a good thing to hit that hardest part of the trip on the final hour or so driving into the city. So we made reservations for a motel room in Binghamton NY for Friday night and we would drive down to Katie's on Saturday morning and get there for lunch.

We stayed at the Comfort Inn which is where we had stayed previously. We got a room on the second floor overlooking the back parking lot where we had parked our car. We went to bed around nine and just as we had started trying to get some sleep there was a lot of noise out in the parking lot. There was a group of teenagers down there just below our window doing some kind of dance routine with some loud music, hand clapping and some shouting. It looked like there were doing some kind of tic-toc dance thing. The parking lot was well lit and there was plenty of room for the 15 to 20 or so kids to do their thing. It actually looked kind of cool and after checking them out from the window we went back to bed.

But they didn't stop. They kept on practicing their dancing routines and it went on for another hour. So now it was getting a little past 10 pm and the noise was keeping us awake. Finally at about 10:20 I'd had enough and went down to the motel desk to make a complaint after trying to call the desk on the room phone. The person at the desk seemed surprised that the kids in the parking lot were annoying us with their loud music and shouting. She said they were rehearsing for some show. I said they were keeping us awake under our window and I needed to get some rest before driving the following day. The desk clerk assured me she would talk to the kids and end the noise.

A few minutes later the kids were all gone from the parking lot.